numbing

A season of monotony has played out with a numbing sameness on the interior of UCLA’s defensive line.

The play dramatizes the modern Kafkaesque hell of automated phone systems that make callers wait ungodly amounts of time, to numbing hold music, before speaking to a scripted agent.

Two games in, the National League Championship Series has now been transformed into something few thought it would ever be, something that should make Dodger fans knot those blue rags around their numbing fingers.

By the time she entered high school, she’d begun using food as more than just a source of soothing — it was a kind of numbing agent she’d administer in secret.

“Our vision is we get the run game going,” Roman said, “and the complementary play-action pass and the ability to throw the ball down the field when we can, or just check it down with numbing repetition underneath. That’s what we’re chasing.”